>> how do you compare with what's happening in washington today? >> we are here to celebrate values. >> how many cups of coffee a day? >> half. >> mr. vice president, how you doing? >> good. >> mr. president, you've been aspiring for this office for your whole career. what does this feel like? >> laura: what do they have in common with a cavalier king charles spaniel? lap dog. shannon? >> republican congress woman liz cheney keeps her number three leadership position and the vote isn't even close. minority leader kevin mccarthy pleaded with republicans to move past the vote to peach former president trump which had enraged some her wyoming

constituents. her detractors argue the leadership should speak with one voice, but they were outnumbered 145-61. republicans emerging from the vote tonight saying they're more united than ever. mccarthy also went on offense over tomorrow's vote to sit freshman marjorie taylor-greene, strip her of her committee assignments. mccarthy said it was aimed at taking the temperature down. tonight, greene talked. we've got the inside scoop. tonight mccarthy asked why democrats seem to be just fine with eric swalwell continuing to hit on the intelligence committee despite his relationship with an alleged chinese spy. >> are we going to leave swalwell on homeland security and intel? the speaker has that

appointment. she and i were both down in the skip and we heard what the fbi report was. no way would i ever leave him on intel or home land. i question whether he should still be a member of congress. >> shannon: hello. i'm shannon bream in washington. very busy day. it's been a busy one. hey, kevin. >> reporter: good evening, shannon. look. we're all guilty of blowing it from time to time. but to make what appeared to many to be a homophobic sweet about a sitting u.s. senator, hardly seems like the messaging a press secretary would like to promote, especially one that claims to be part of the most inclusive administration in history. [ talking at the same time ] the white house wants to talk about other things like bipartisan covid relief,

immigration reform and sweeping new energy policy. the nearly gail daily gaffes seem to be knocking them off. today stocky which she referred to lindsey graham as, quote, lady g a description considered to be a homophobic slur. a deluge of comments on twitter. this should be widely condemned said the former acting director ric grenell. tone deaf said another sweet. i guess this is the decency we were all promised chimed in a record. another urged psaki to issue an apology. john kerry was all roasted on twitter, this time by newt gingrich over his use of a private jet while advancing climate change policies.

former secretary of state called it the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle. gingrich respond suggesting kerry's decision was yet another symbol of the contempt for mere citizens. one rule for them, a different rule for us. meanwhile, rules of fair play were the theme of sharp questioning today on capitol hill of the biden administration's education secretary nominee. >> do you think it's fair to have boys running in a girls track meet? >> it's a legal responsibility to provide opportunities for students to participate in opportunities and this includes students who are transgender. >> reporter: the white house was questioned about whether mr. biden had already broken a campaign promise by pushing for $1400 stimulus checks when he said in january that $2,000 checks, quote, would go out the

door immediately if they won in georgia. jen psaki said it was in addition to the $600 relief checks were handed out during the trump administration. shannon? >> shannon: kevin, you never make mistakes. you said we all do. good to see you, kevin. the cdc director is ramping up the pressure on teachers unions tonight to get their membership back into classrooms with or without the vaccine. >> also want to be clear that there is increasing data that schools need to reopen and safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. >> shannon: trace gallagher is taking a look at how this is all playing out in san francisco.

he's live from our west coast news room tonight. good evening, trace. >> reporter: good evening. parents frustrated at not having their kids back in the classroom have for months accused their cities of being unable to reign in teachers unions and even their own schools. now san francisco is showing just how true that sentiment is. the city of san francisco will now sue its own board of education and unified school district, accusing them of violating a state law that mandates school districts must have a clear plan during the pandemic to get students back into the classroom. in other words, the city says after ten months, the schools have earned an f. superintendent vince matthews calls the lawsuit frivolous and a waste of time and money. >> we are assessing, reassessing different parts of the plan. but the plan is still there, publicly available. to say we do not have a plan is absolutely incorrect. >> reporter: but if there is a

plan, there apparently is also an additional list of requirements and demands being made by the teachers union. the san francisco chronicle is now reporting a group calling itself strike ready is now trying to convince teachers to strike if the district forces them back into classrooms before they get vaccinated, even though the cdc said all teachers don't need to be vaccinated. dr. anthony fauci, the biden administration's point man, said children can go back to school safely. but gop senators, including mitch mcconnell, think fauci has been displaced by teachers unions, who continue to blame kids not being in class on a lack of federal funding. >> federal money is not the obstacle. the obstacle is lack of will power. not among students, not among parents, just among the rich, powerful unions.

>> reporter: today governor news so m said he thinks schools can reopen safely. >> i say this as someone with four young kids. >> reporter: of course, his children go to private school and have been back in class for months. we should note today michael bloomberg called on president biden to stand up to teachers unions who are, quote, stone walling efforts to reopen schools. >> shannon: this is really heating up, getting really interesting, having both sides pressuring him. trace, thank you. breaking tonight, new york republicans calling on the justice department to subpoena governor andrew cuomo over his initial pandemic nursing home policy. a state judge ordered the release of details about the covid-19 deaths that happened there. we have the report live from new

york city tonight. good evening. >> reporter: shannon, good evening to you. yes, andrew cuomo facing another blow today. a judge ruling that it was his health department that illegally withheld information about nursing home deaths from a new york think tank. back in august, the empire center for public policy filed a freedom of information for nursing home deaths but the health department stone walled them for months. in a court ruling today asking supreme court justice kimberly o'connell writes the doh does not offer an adequate explanation as to why it has not responded to that request within its estimated time period. a spokes person for the department of health said they just completed an audit and were in the process of responding. the court has now ordered them to hand over the information in five business day. the ruling comes just one week after new york's attorney

general revealed cuomo's administration undercounted nursing home deaths by as much as 50%. cuomo is facing mounting scrutiny after nine of his senior health officials reportedly quit, and after he admitted this -- >> when i say experts in air quotes, it sounds like i'm saying i don't really trust the experts. because i don't. >> reporter: the new york times ripped apart the governor's argument for reopening indoor dining in new york city, reporting that by nearly every metric the outbreak is worse now than it was when the city banned indoor dining in december. average cases per capita up 64%, average hospitalizations up 60%. a member of the governor's covid task force told "the times" the trends are heading downward. by how much though is still up for debate. on friday the governor show cased a chart suggesting the city's test positivity rate

dropped by 30% but "the times" presented its own graph showing only a 17% drop. and now just about two weeks into the biden presidency, new jersey's governor also announcing that he, too, will be loosening up some of those covid-19 restrictions. indoor dining capacity, can be a little bit larger and restaurants can stay open beyond 10 p.m. just in time for the super bowl. shannon? >> shannon: aishah, thank you. dramatic night for republicans on capitol hill. at a conference meeting where marjorie taylor-greene addressed her colleagues and liz cheney. she got the vote and won it convincingly. >> we really did have a terrific vote tonight, a terrific time this evening, laying out what

we're going to do going forward, all making clear that we aren't going to be divided. >> shannon: what do these developments mean for the gop going forward? former white house deputy chief of staff karl rove joins us to break it down. >> how are you? >> shannon: i'm good. republicans say they're good. kevin mccarthy, you have the woman congress woman liz cheney who will retain her leadership position with the gop. and several others coming out of the meeting saying it was a strong meeting, that they are more united than ever and ready to move past their inner quarrels. >> it sound likes that. i think a big reason why is because liz cheney took it upon herself to call virtually every member of the caucus and give them a chance to express their concerns to her personally and privately and respond to them with respect and it seems to have worked. a pretty overwhelming vote. this is not the way that you

want to spend the opening weeks of the new legislative session, with a division within your party. i think they've taken a big step to resolve this one. >> shannon: they also say marjorie taylor-greene stood up, took questions. she denied any allegiance to qanon. she separated herself from statements in the past, conspiracy theories. we're told there was a bit of a standing ovation or lot of clapping when she owned up and said to the caucus what a lot of them wanted to hear. we're hearing from some folks saying what i heard from her was great. i'd love to hear her be this clear publicly. do you think it's coming? >> i think she's had to. she's on the record publicly saying things like jews control space and started fires in california. no aircraft was slammed into the pentagon on 9/11. that there's an international

conspiracy of pedophiles in leadership and they're satan worshippers. a whole bunch of nutty things. the republican party and republican candidates are getting hit by the democrats and the media for those kinds of comments unless one of two things happens. she forcefully denounces them and doesn't repeat it or she gets removed from her committee assignment. she is on two very important committees as a freshman. she's on the budget committee and education and labor. these are prestigious appointments and should not be made to a person who's said as nutty things as she has. she's personally insulted the parents and families of those who died in the school massacres in connecticut and florida by saying that she felt these were staged events using actors. that is just rep prehenable. republican party cannot afford to have somebody who says those

things. if she said this in private, she better come out and say it in public. >> shannon: i have heard statements from her where she is refuting some of those things saying she didn't say them or is refusing them. >> one last comment on that. every one of the things that i mentioned comes from her social media accounts. i have got a stack of the material that bears her name. she's got to come out and deny it. or not deny it but disavow it. >> shannon: okay. tonight axios has a headline about schumer. it says chuck shumer is rediscovering the joys of running a 50/50 senate. they talk about how congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez and other progressives are

talking about running for his senate seat in 2022. the gop is going around him. he's got a bit of a headache on his hands. >> i thought the comment about republicans talking to the president was an interesting shot at the white house. it was the president who accepted the invitation from republicans to meet to discuss the bill. sounded to me like schumer's basically telling president biden don't be talking to republicans. if you want to talk to the republicans, talk to me. there's a little bit of tear torial nature in every leader but schumer tends to have more of it from my experience with him during the bush years. but, look, this isn't a pleasant place to be. it wasn't a pleasant place for mitch mcconnell. it's not a pleasant place for schumer. he's moving big things over his way. the senate is not built for speed. it's not designed to act in as rapid a fashion as the house is.

he's got alexandria ocasio-cortez hanging out there, sending signals that she might be a prospective opponent for him. he's got to deliver. that's hard to do when you have to rely on every democrat lining up behind the administration and your position every single day. even then, if they do, you still have to have the vice president there to break the tie. >> shannon: when you have senators saying they aren't going to go along with far left progressive ideas, you have to count them in your vote, too. karl rove, great to see you tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> shannon: numbers at the southern border prompting the biden administration to do something president trump got blasted for. former acting cdc commissioner mark morgan will react on how

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>> shannon: the cruelty of the prior administration has come to an end and now we will demonstrate to the world what we, as americans are. >> shannon: the homeland security secretary calling out the trump administration on its first full day on the job as the biden administration plans to open a temporary shelter for migrant children in texas the very practice the media blasted the trump administration over. mark morgan to discuss that dichotomy and all of president biden executive orders undoing trump immigration policy. mark, good to have you back. >> thanks, shannon. >> shannon: we continue to hear about surging numbers at the

border. the white house press secretary said, i believe it was yesterday, kind of sending this message, don't come yet, we're not ready for you. you noted the numbers are surging. did you expect there would be this many this soon? >> absolutely. so did every expert who has spent their lives upholding the rule of law and making sure our borders were secure, shannon. we've been sounding this alarm during the entire biden campaign. if he did what he promised he was going to do, we would see a crisis that would make 2019 pale in comparison. that's exactly what we are seeing. with the stroke of a pen just a couple hours after biden took office, he made our borders less secure, our country less safe and endangered the men and women trying to protect our country. shannon, we're in a new era where the united states now is absolutely encouraging and incentiizing immigrants to come

to the border. >> shannon: those people are often exploited by the coyotes. not fair to them either along that process. something from axios saying biden's brewing childhood immigration process. the trump administration was lambasted for its use of tent cities when holding facilities were overwhelmed in 2019. biden's rhetoric and intention to differ but that doesn't change his challenge. when space runs out, the options are limited. >> shannon, that's what we anticipated. these are hhs facilities for unaccompanied minors once they are apprehended. we give them to hhs. those same ten cities, they're already started to be constructed because we're

anticipating because of the increase in numbers, they're going to be needed. it' not complicated. if your border strategy consists of, if you get here, we're going to release you into the united states. we'll protect you from lawful deportation. we're going to reward you with daca, amnesty and free health care, of course they're coming. right now 21 day average is 3,000 a day. just a couple days ago we reached 3500 in a single day trying to illegally enter this country. we haven't seen those since the crisis of 2019. this is a direct result of biden's open border strategy period. >> shannon: his own administration is telling those folks don't come yet, but we know there are other messages that are a magnet for people looking desperately for hope and a different place to be. we'll track this. we know there's talk of what they're trying to do on capitol

hill. doesn't seem like a lot of bipartisanship but they're gonna give it a try. mark morgan, thank you, sir. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: the first black lieutenant governor of north carolina slamming a political cartoon that depicts him and fellow republicans as kkk members. fox news tonight investigates that next. i had this hundred thousand dollar student debt. two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in debt. ah, sofi literally changed my life. it was the easiest application process. sofi made it so there's no tradeoff between my dreams and paying student loans. student loans don't have to take over for the rest of your life. thank you for allowing me to get my money right. ♪♪ ♪♪ it's velveeta shells & cheese to get my money right. versus the other guys. ♪♪

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assault rifle to shoot them through a closed door. >> one hit in the shoulder. >> reporter: five agents shot, two dead, two hospitalized with multiple gun shot wounds, the fifth treated on the scene. fbi director wray met with the families of the slain agents. officials say they meticulously plan for all operations. >> vast majority of these warrants occur without incidence. >> reporter: now the gated community is the crime scene of one of the deadliest events in fbi history. >> my neighbor down the street heard gun fire at 6 a.m. >> reporter: expressing his condolences, president biden spoke about those who wear the badge. >> vast, vast majority of these men and women who decent, honorable people who put themselves on the line. we owe them. >> reporter: his qualified phrase of law entpoersment drew questions from the media. >> why was it important to say the vast majority?

>> because he believes the men and women who have been serving our country have been criticized and he wanted to reiterate his support for the important work they do. >> reporter: daniel alfin and laura schwartzenberger were veterans of multiple child pornography investigations, often pursuing cases where violent acts of children were committed. both have spouses and children of their own. shannon? >> shannon: steve harrigan, thank you very much. north carolina's new lieutenant governor is going after the practice of teaching the concept of racism in his state's public schools and engaging in a heated bash with the media. mark robinson made history this year when he became the first black man to hold the office of lieutenant governor in north carolina.

he did it by campaigning against the idea of systemic racism. during a debate with his black female opponent, a democrat. >> i don't believe that systemic racism in our nation would allow two black people standing here running for lieutenant governor and have seen a black president be elected to two terms. systemic racism is not involved. >> shannon: outraged over a board of education discussion said to call our system racist is an untruth as far as i'm concerned. i truly believe that it is an untruth as far as history is concerned and it does a disservice to our students. it puts the idea in the mind of our children that they live in a nation that has promoted racism. robinson believes american students should learn history from what he calls a victorious perspective. if we want children to embrace a system, tell them to embrace a system that ended slavery, that ended jim crow, that gave women

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in charge said this, i find it a little offensive, especially with what happened in miami yesterday. these men and women put their lives on the line every day so i think it's more than a vast majority. lot of folks looking to the white house and wanting to see support for law enforcement from president biden. there's been a lot of parsing of words and defunding police. what do you hope to hear from him now? what do law enforcement folks need to hear from him? >> they need to hear support. i hope that he will support them. they're dealing with terrible conditions on the ground. in 2020, we saw the largest increase in the homicide rate that we've ever seen in this country. a lot of it is in urban areas. a lot of it is, i think, because of this idea of progressive prosecution where you have this new breed of prosecutors all over the country. they're in san francisco, l.a.,

chicago, st. louis, philadelphia, my home city, boston and other areas. they're pursuing policies that i think are putting neighborhoods and people at risk, and putting law enforcement officers at risk. >> shannon: what do you make of that, because many of those folks have openly campaigned on those things. fewer prosecutions, you know, downgrading certain crimes to misdemeanors. lot of these people telegraphed exactly what they were going to do before they were elected. do you think people understand the impact of what prosecutors can do in their community? >> i think you're right, that they did campaign on a certain platform and now we're seeing the result of that platform. we're seeing increases in serious violent crime, shootings, homicides. people in some ways are getting what they voted for, because maybe they don't realize what the consequences are.

so it's important i think for people to speak up and connect the dots. certainly in philadelphia, i'm very familiar with what is happening there. based on what i saw, i saw people who clearly should have been in jail being released on the street and committing murder. there are actually hundreds of example of this, where people clearly should have been locked up because of committing crimes or committing probation vie layings that weren't pursued by larry crasner, the da in philadelphia. these people are on the street literally committing murder. >> shannon: we're seeing this across the country. a number of big cities come to mind. you mentioned it. we've got a map that shows surging crime up in new york, philadelphia, atlanta, chicago, los angeles. that's just part of it. you mentioned the increase in homicides the biggest we've seen in a long time in 2020. you mentioned people being back

on the streets. these are people not being charged or getting rid of cash bail. people getting out because of covid restrictions. lot of these folks are examples of them going on to reoffend. so what can we do about it? how bad is the problem? >> the problem is bad. there's a lot of reasons why people end up on the street when they shouldn't be. there's overly lenient bail conditions. there's probation violations that are not being pursued. there's cases being dropped. there's cases not being brought. there's sweetheart plea deals, where people serve a certain amount of time and not nearly as much as they should. they get out and they commit violence. the overall goal of these progressive prosecutors is, you sometimes hear the word decarceration. they're interested in letting peep out of prison, not putting people in prison. that doesn't mean you have to be overly aggressive or overly punitive. i understand that reform is an

important part of the discussion. but what you can't do, you can't put hardened criminals out on the street to murder and shoot and maim. unfortunately, there's many layers to this tragedy, shannon, but one layer that's particularly heartbreaking is that the people who suffer the most from these policies are actually racial minorities. if you look at philadelphia, for example. over 90% of the homicide victims are black and latino. those statistics hold true in other urban areas as well. progressive prosecutors like to pretend that what they're doing helps minority groups. in fact, it does just the opposite. >> shannon: we'll have you come back and talk about something we talked about when you were still in your official position, these sites where cities are trying to set up areas where people can use illegal drugs but with protection in case they overdose, and have people

standing by to revive them. you were a big part of that battle. come back and we'll talk about that as well. good to have you. >> love to do that. thank for having me. >> shannon: marjorie taylor-greene. what she said behind closed doors tonight. our breaking news panel reacts live next. one of the worst things about a cold sore is how it can make you feel. but, when used at the first sign, abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days.

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>> shannon: president biden's choice to be deputy secretary of education is san diego's school superintendent, who hosted diversity training for white teachers featuring a speaker who was a-- author of hate crime host will fred riley. good to have you with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> good to be here, shannon. >> shannon: okay. so christopher lupo has been tweeting about what's going on out there in her school district. on january 6, she talked about somebody she had in. this is critical race. according to a whistle blower because they weren't allowed to report this, love began by saying racism runs deep in america and blacks alone know who america is. love claims public schools don't see blacks as human, they perpetuate anti-blackness and

spirit murder babies. >> well, i mean, you obviously want a little more context than twitter can provide, but those are, to say the least, very bizarre comments. i teach in a very integrative environment. i don't think i spirit murder my caucasian students. i don't think my white colleagues spirit murder african-american students under their care. so i mean, off hand that sounds nonsensical, abit over the line. >> shannon: this is somebody the san diego superintendent who is a biden nominee posted there. maybe she'll get questions about that. radicals in the classroom are like this. according to standardized test scores only 37% of san diego's fourth graders are proficient in reading and 42% proficient in math. black and latino students performed substantially worse. the language of spirit murder

won't do anything to help the students. leslie? >> taking in context, i'm so glad that was mentioned because, quite frankly, this was after the murder of george floyd. this was a diversity training session in which they had numerous speaker. ms. love was not the only one. ms. love has been asked about that comment. what she talked about is breaking down the spirit of african-americans, but also latinos and other children of color with racism at the base, over time, in reference to systemic racism. also looking at the stats in san diego, the second largest school district in the state that i'm in, in california. the graduation rate under this woman that joe biden wants on his team, president biden wants on his team, has increased. that is a good thing if you're looking at the overall numbers.

>> shannon: is there a place for these conversations to talk about difficult subjects, things that are controversial even in the schools, different school levels where they obviously need help with some of the basic educational requirements. but this goes beyond that, treating a student as a whole and seeing them as people. >> as a parent, i'm scared, shannon. i have got a 5 and 7-year-old. 5-year-old son, 7-year-old girl. i want them to learn the basics. i want them to be better than 37% proficient in math and 42% in reading. they need to do better at those certain things than learn things about as they get older, as they get into high school about how to manage credit or how to manage their checkbook or how to actually explore the real world and navigate the real world. when we're talking about racism so much in the classroom, i get it it should be part of the curriculum, but it has to be a small part of it. those basic training skills, in

terms of that narrative, needs to be explained in the homes from parents to kids, not teachers to kids. i don't think that's the place for it predominantly. i think that's something that should be in the values of your home. you teach it to your kids. let's concentrate more on the things that educate them to get them better in life and get them better jobs in the future. that's just my personal feeling as a parent. >> if i could say one thing. i'd be very interested in -- i don't think there's much of any connection between the conversation about spirit murder and performance on math test. i'd be serious about how asian and nigerian students are doing in class. we need to focus on basics as much as we can. >> shannon: there is plenty of work to be done across the country. wilfred, leslie and joe, thank you very much. >> thanks, shannon.

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out of political spite is the only reason we can see this was done because his does not line up to what we heard from the president with his inaugural address. >> shannon: tonight we have learned that some republican lawmakers are demanding interesting up to 12 weeks of leave is guaranteed to federal employees. some good news before we say good night. world war ii veteran alfred guerra getting help from his fellow vets. the purple heart and bronze star recipient march's home fall apart after some staff. the family said they found it difficult to maintain the upkeep so his daughter reached out for help on social media. good things can come from social media. several veterans groups responded. they are working around-the-clock. they say they want to fully restore his home. the war hero is staying with his daughter in the meantime, the one who reached out for all the help and he says as long as he's

with family, he's always happy. thank you to the groups who stepped up to do something so special. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful he spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i am shannon bream. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy wednesday. on november 22, 1963, a man called lee harvey oswald murdered the president of the united states. there were a lot of questions about what happened, but there was never any question about who lee harvey oswald was. oswald was a passionate and committed communist. in 1959, he gave up his american passport and defected to the soviet union. there, he married a russian woman and lived in minsk. three years later, he returned to this country and immediately began to attend rallies for fidel castro, the communist leader of cuba. in the fall of 1963, oswald traveled to mexico city and met with the k.g.b. agents there. a few months before in